Carnal Nights (edition 1992)

This book, firmly in the erotic genre, is a form of 'prequel' to 'The Carnal Days of Helen Seferis', written by Alexander Trocchi and published by Headline (1992) anonymously as simply 'Carnal Days'. This explains the title and the motivation of the book. Headline took the opportunity to complement the original plot. The Trocchi book concerns the investigations of a man tasked with tracing Helen Seferis, for whom the only clues about her fate is a diary written after her capture by a North African desert tribe as a sexual slave, and 'Carnal Days' constructs this diary including material that explains Helen's history. Originally Helen Smith, an Australian, she is hot-blooded, and her many erotic escapades as she travels between her home country and Africa make very entertaining reading. ( )